The Chicago tribune and the Daily news, New York - 1924-01-17 (4771488) — page 3
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FAllURE; NEW
LAW IS SOUGHT
firkable Substitute" For prohibition Is Plan
Of Wets
|y ARTHUR SEARS HENNING eoecïal Cable To The Tribune)
«^lïXnTON, -Jai 1. tG.—Asserîinp 'complété failuro lias attencled fciir yenrs of attompted. jprohibi'•jiforcr-raerit," Captalll - W. ' 17. bond ci: ilie association p'i'tiie- prohibition amenf.tmprtt. flitmï- ton ight i:io c<')n'i:ng' of - -a (tta îacts» -çorifcr-ence Jier-e on lrv 21. to rocommend an "cn^'jc substituée. i'or the 'V olste:'1.d tain Stayton said that tlie con* L WDÚlrl bo aU endort by anijliiHon iBis -from ail over Ihc uy, The gathevihg will be ad!CCl']iy Senatore Rruco (Dem. Md.), iril (Dem. Del), - and Stanley I Kv-Î - -
"Trial Period" Over.
IL contemplatcd meeting will, '£ jho end of the 'trial period' Vli the association has allowed the kml and State government agonfjo make good in supressing nasille violations of the liquor caid Capt-ain Stayton.
'k£c country. was régal cd wi#î latituclCs and promises ,tt , Ilie c,,O; iM 'citlzcnslnp confcrcn{;G' lield :a Washington eorne montas stnee. Thdb V'ffl-e 1110 con'fcrence . of the rveiuoi? of the vanaus, s:tato.s 1.dd I® « n i ington to discuss better cn' oTcemcnt. Both of thèse constitutnd nr tlci'î admission of t110 fanuro of jmohihîfion cnforcemcnt. puring t!iG Lml /lwt lias sinGe -elapsed, condi^0[| Hâve becorne ycorse .11lstead of ictÎT c.rownîïïg .sensation jresented in tlie récent "fUlli ring" iisio^ui'eè at t110 national c-apitol lseÍf. Witli ibis record of fonr y-ears n-astêcl or woree tliao" wasteù, tlie iOlè lias corne wl1en the American eople, and not tho AllÜ-saloon eague' sliould be con-sidered, and it k lie cause of tho American people m "vvill be taken np at ttie conertîJlCQ.
" Law Must Be Right".
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«tlie facts regardîng' prohibition cliorebment .are w-eli known. As tho '(Ji of our conférence indicates, wc tëë(l to face 'them. The convention rilï co''ns'idcr among other questions llie' propor méthods to be used to btain législation Vhich . wouid be jee|>ected an(j Hbc:}tcû \v'lt'!io'ut enforçemeit'hy viol-ent means. Tlie assocîatioi will go on record thaï it nds forflaw and 'ordor, but the la^y rnnst ho jiglit befoïe t11e ordor can corne. i EfPTP3entative Davis (Dem. Torvi.) |na|e public 1 tonight corrcspond in cd %'itii Internai Revenue Commission or D lait on t110 immunitv l'rom reliure ûÎ ¡il(! liquor 'importcd by diplornats RWcd sueli immunitv and \Vhct'îC',' it fxtendcd to ail a diplom.at's ssvra^s and €'mp!oyec?. 'Air. mait"" rplv p part follows.
"Diplomatic Liquors".
•from \llelSo statutcs and rcgula.lloûs you will see that. the treasury ieitertoent bas no active function in tte-'e promises, as !t neitirer author%. the, importation, purebase, 6:>1(" w transportation of 'ùiplomatic. liqUûrs' and it cannot, under the law, ta anywfec 'i.nt.crrGt.'G with tl1cm so long as they arc jn'lhe haiids of a My a-ccredited représentative of a roreLgn country or ono in bis employ, My registered with the Department 'î^tato and W11011 such iiquors are [oimtl in ia\vfubband.s, and not oeing !ni-anj^iso uulawi'uny -diverted or -tsed, tlie officiais of tho Treasury do loi interfero -with them.:
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CHICAGO, Jan. lO.-Gi nerai Secretayy Charles V, Vickrey of th-e Near Ea.si Relief bas sent to ail former and prescrit "stat© directors to 1 whom l1is or.iginal libelous communication was sent ^ a complète and categ'orîcal rétraction of charges against Larry Rue,' Tribune staff correspondent in the near east, as f-ollows:
<;l.n a communication Io you from the unde-rsigned unclef, date of Dec-, 18, 1920, it was statdd that an article a-ppearing' in The Cliieci,,yo Tribune on Qct. 2, 1920, and written by Larrj"* Rue, was written by l1im whil-e 11'0 wa.s under the influence of liquor.
"Thé undersig'ned bas found, upon investigation, and is now convincod,' that th« said article was a true report of a lioaring1 before the consular court in Constant] nopfe, and the charg'o that Air. Rue was unc1er tho influence of liquor at the time he wr-ote the article i5 UllÍTUC. Tho unclorsignecl 1l1crefore talves this opp'ortlmity of fully and comple#ly rctracting' the charges so.. macle, in justice to Mr. Rue. ' ' \
"(3'igned) . C. V. VICKR'EY, .
"Cicneral Sccre tal'Y. "¡
-The article r-oferred to was sent ex-' clusively by Mr. Rue from Constantinople to Tho Tribune and-exposed the. employmen't by eight employés of Near East Relief fpnds rals'ed in tli,p United States for hir-e of "l1ootcl1y.kootclry" dancer.s and purchasos of Champagne.
MEMORIAL BODY
HOLDS ELECTION
, The firsf.' annu-al meeting, of tlie Amc-rican d'vÛl',scas Mémorial Day association .nnder the new constitution ' and ' by-làws. adopted last ¡\o,{-cm])r.i' was lield yesterday at five p.m. at 10 rue do l'Elysee.
The reports of the treasurer, t)1e r-etiring chairman, the Ilomirrating ! committee were read and approved. | The officers for tlie now year 1921 . werc thon '.cÜectccl and arc as 1'0110\\<::;:
Dr. Edmund Gros, cliairman, Mr. N. D. Jay, ai^o-chSirtïtan^ ïSctretary" Mr. E. C. Sanhorn, secretary, Air.. Tïawr-enc-e Slade, t-reasiver.
lion. Myron T. Ilerrick xv.111 romain Honorary Président and lIon. A. M. Thackara IIonorary Vice Président.
Dr: Gros, the new chairman, on takîng- tho chair than'ked the rctiring chairman. Col. Francis E. Drake, for Iris untirinp' efforts since the r blrtl1 of the Mémorial Day association and promise d to mut for'uli his best efforts ta continue tho noble wor.k so ably begun.
l'ho Mémorial D:w aesociation's sole objoct is tlie décoration of Ajncr.ican soldiers* and sa Hors'. grav&s oyerseas,
During tlie last drive for funds the American Red Cross collecied in the United States one hundred and sixty tbousand dollars. Tliis'as welT as the onc million two liurulred tllousand francs collccted by the. Mémorial- Day association in Franco is hcld as a permanent fund and orily,tlie interest wiil I)o used for the: décoration of the gravM. •
INDIAN MOSLEMS
DISCUSS CALIPH
BY THOMAS RYAN
(The Tribune Foreign News Service)
BrHID,\.Y, Jan. 1G.-,,-Wm tho. caiiph romain shom of temporal power in Tnrkoy? Will :rndian J\tosIems ?plit m-cr the question of . tb-e Caliph'a prestige, olcl-timer's abandoning radical moyernents likc that which dethroned the temporal caliph, or décidé to forget the Dotcudor of tlie Faith, whose throno wa s the one. rail y: ri g point , of Pan-Islamists?
Tlris is anotber question affRctIng Indian national prob'lojns wliich ai^ay be cl-eeidecl in the near future, as futures are reckoned in the east.
1 bave talked with many prominent Moslems in an attempt to learn what ideas sway their minions of coreligionists,' j'rom '* tlie • Philippin os' to Morocco. 'l 'li(,, orthodox say that at this vcar's conferenco the Ulemas jdl Wlsomon must givo the Caliph such pervers as tll0 Popes held in the middl-e ages, Radicals who are mtorested in national movomrmis in India and- "rurkey want the Caliph kept in Yatican-like aloofness. Even now, Indian Moslems arc holding , a conférence' at Colombo to unify the ,national attitude toward the prophet's successor. - f.
Hadicals who ignore the Tnrki.sM' caliphaic question aro maintaining a close contact with Palestinien and other Arabs,
Chiefs. of Arabia proper have sont a proclamation to the Indian s announcing a conference to be held in three weeks at Jeclcla11 whr'rc a boycott of British, French and! Jewish goocls can be discnssed, Iîiit despito bittornoss over holy places, thn Indian Moslems suspect the patronage of this. conférence by King Iledjaz wllOse .care-er bas been fréquently Anglophile, and favor Ibn Said, his poworful rival Orjo .point wlÜc-ll the Moslems reîtefate is that the Treaty of Lausarl'110 shouid not bave been the affair of AnÍêrilcan ' missionaries ' and • thpy would ;have the United Stàtes cem- gre-ss discuss this issue without bigot ry;
DRANK A BIT ,
FOUGHT A LOT,
LIVED TILL 108
KASÏRTLLP-, Tenn., Jan. ir>,— After living, .for 108 .years, figlit-ing in six major bailles of the ch d. war, being sever-ety wounded twiro, euf.fer.t.ng a stroke of paralysas and recovering fl'OlT\ yellow fever, James Il. Wood, vétéran of tho 22d Goorgia roglment, co.nfederate army, is dead hore at the Old Soldiers' llonie, from a second attack of paralysie wliich füHOwcc1 a fall. ' -
Mr. Wood attributed bis Joug- life to tlie "sImple life," drinking orïly moclerately, "a toddy now and t-hen," drinking coffee but three times a day, smoking with modération and eating méat occasionally.
lie was in tire bailles of Chickamnuga, Bull nun, Seven Pilles, Xc\v Hope, Atlanta, and Franklin.
Faubourg Montmartre Is
Minus Lights Two Hours
A failuro of eïect-rie power pbmp.'fd tho quarter of tlie faubourg l\'1ontmartre . into darkiiess nt G:15 o'clock last nigbt wldrl1 lasted in some sections for two nours. Tho inhabitants were forced to baul out old lamps, pnrchasE; candies and take recourue to varions other eubstitutes to bridge over the period of darkncss.
Miss Pearl White Sails
On Aquitania For N. Y.
Miss Pearl White, tho famous film actrrss, sailed on ihc Aqui.tamri. ur the Cnna.rd Line yesterday for New York whero sbe-will spend live weeks attending tl) business aUair-s. It is be'lieved tliat Miss.White wUi start a new film during ber.-stay jn Amorim,
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M, FIrmin Grihier, (.U).'ector or the Théâtre National de l Odéon of Paris, revéaled tho inside of Parisian tlieaLtical life for a largo orowd a-t tho sallo do conférence of the Ampricrm rnhersity 1 mon at; t?:! Roulevard Sf. Germuin lasi; ni Khi. in bis talk on the, Odoun. One of nl8 foremost r rencli players and having formerly bepn the_ director of tho Antoine théâtre, his address was charged witli inL'jniato pictores and a ttlorongl1 knowledge of French actors and thelr problems..
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PRINCESS IS BETROTHED
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SOFIA, Jan. 1G.-Tllo bethrothal of the young-cr sister of King Boris to Duke Alberg von Huttemberg' was announced hère yestenlay.
Requiem Mass Sung
For Major Tibbets
'Mrs. Wo.ber Tilsbiis hn3 rrfnrnQfl to tho Hôtel Regina, ai'f'f.'r a short tope in Italy, for the second an nivela ry of the death o£ Major Walter Tibbits, who ' wns on the hradqnal'ters staff of the Northern Army" of IucHa, She lias reecived the condolfnuccs of M:)rsbat Foch on this aceasion,
A requiem mass was snpg at tho Cha.i'i:reuëe, Florence. ' " -
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■ ROME, Jnn. Hî.--,\ fiinj? l'eciltll at flic, Sala S^ainbati. givoii J>y Mr..John. YalcntilJ(\, tlio New York ici i or, was very vvell. at.tcn(!f'(L Ikvg. 't")]'' proSI'.'Ull wns CH)! 11 [J05-0(1 Of KO'l.ccI io'IJS: i'foiri Drahriis, Jlamlel, Moz;iri:, and' Scinnnan.
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..\f)'.. l(o('Jan oÇ tho AnioriGrni. cmhnspy is •fxpcctin.c,' to .c''ivc a soog/rocifn.1 somotisne dnvinjr Ui.c oavly part of Fchruary.
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